Nazi Dressing FBI-Agent-biting Jihadist---wait, what?

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And here I thought Glenn Beck was nuts...
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/govt_nazi-dressing_alleged_jihadist_doesnt_need_an.php

The government doesn't want Emerson Begolly, the 21-year-old former Penn State student who allegedly bit two FBI agents in the parking lot of a Burger King when they tried to question him about apparent pro-jihad messages he posted online, released.

Especially not to his father, federal prosecutors argued, who dressed him up as a Nazi as a kid, allowed him to roam around his farm with an AK-47 and said Begolly's reported authorship of anti-Semitic poems meant he was "just going through a phase."

Wait, what? Why does he need an AK-47?

"By way of explanation, defendant's father offered that, on occasion, defendant would encounter stray animals on his father's 100 acre farm, necessitating the need for his AK-47," U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton and Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret E. Picking wrote on behalf of the government. "We respectfully submit that one does not use an AK-47 assault rifle to fend off a stray animal."

Of course! Those nasty deer are so hard to hit with a M1 Garand after all...

But wait, it gets WEIRDER!

According to defense testimony at the hearing, one of the FBI agents who says he was bitten, Bradley W. Orsini, reportedly had an unspecified prior relationship with Begolly's mother -- who Begolly's federal defender claims is an alcoholic with mental health issues of her own. And, back in Sept. 2001, Orsini was disciplined with a demotion and a 30-day suspension without pay because the FBI said he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate; made improper vulgar and sexual comments; threatened a subordinate with violence and improperly documented the seizure of a weapon and ammunition from a search, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said.

Wow, how the hell did this guy get a badge and a gun? I thought the FBI didn't hire psychos.

How do you wrap your head around this?